Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 14, Number 155, Decatur, Adams County, 30 June 1916 — Page 2

DAILY DEMOCRAT .Published Every Evening Except Sunday by The Decatur Cemocrat Company JOHN H. HELLER Preeident ARTHUR R. HOLTHOUSE, Secretary Subscription Rates. For Week, by carrier 10 cents Per Year, by carrier $5.00 Per Month, by mail 25 cents Per Year, by mail $2.50 Single Copies 2 cents Advertising rates made known on application. entered at the Postotflce tn Decatur, Indiana, as second-class matter. A RECORD OF ACCOMPLISHMENT: — The country’s greatest business is that of farming. More money is invested in farms than in railroads or factories. Yet near to fifty years of republican domination in the field of federal government went by without any attempt on the part of the government to take any account of the farmer’s business problems, except to try to persuade him that he was benefited by a tariff on wheat, potatoes, etc., which never operated at all — on account of our great surplus of these products—except when our crops failed and it became necessary for the farmer to buy seed abroad, in which case he paid the tariff himself. Today the democracy has been in power for three short years. It has formulated a program of agricultural legislation consisting of eight items. It began with the intention of giving the farmers of the United States — The opportunity to borrow money for short terms on nonperishable agrucultural products. This was theirs through the federal reserve act. A system of farm agents to develop agriculture. This was accomplished through the Smith-Lever act. which is in harmonious operation in forty-eight states, state and federal authorities co-operating perfectly. A division of markets in the department of agriculture. This is today a reality. For the first time in the history of the nation, machinery is at work to organize the distributing agencies through which 100,000,000 people get their food supply. A rural credits act. This has now passed both houses of congress and is in conference. A cotton standards act. This is already law. It establishes definite standards for the grading of cotton, so that buyers may be protected and commercial paper secured by warehoused cotton be bankable everywhere. A grain grades act. This will do a similar service for grain, making one set of grades for the nation, so that buyers and sellers may know exactly what they are dealing in and warehouse certificates may mean the same thing everywhere. The bill is now in congress. A permissive warehouse law. A bill is now before congress providing for government supervision of Warehouses, where desired, so that the purchaser of commercial paper secured by their warehouse certificates may know that the products named in the certificate are in storage, are safe against deterioration, and are of

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the quality certified. A federal good roads law, providing for co-operation between the state and nation, after the precedent set In the Smith-Lever act, In the construction of good roads. The bill is an admirable one, and is now in conference. This program is before the American people. Enough of it has been put through already to enable the public to judge of its practical character and sanity. Its different parts hang together like the links in a suit of chain mail. In view of its character, what are the deserts of the party which has originated it and realized a great part of it at the hands of the American farmers?—Bt. Louis Republic. We have heard of so iany things that the fifty fighters for Decatur could do that wh hope they get at it soon. One man suggested this morning that a couple of lots ought to be rented and covered for parking autos and hitching horses and teams. We have the best farming community that lies out of doors and we ought to cater to the farmer. Come on. boys. We can do It. and we will, but let's do it now! “Colonel Roosevelt and myself are in perfect accord.” was the joyous tidings Mr. Hughes brought out from himself to the waiting world, after dining with the colonel and putting his cards face up on the table. “Perfect accord?’’ One or the other of them is thrumming the other fellow’s string. If anyone can imagine it in the human mature of the colonel to do that, he can imagine something of which there is neither instance nor likelihood.—Fort Wayne Journal-Ga-zette. The Indiana bull moosere refuse to be delivered though an effort almost beyound expectations was made by the republican state organization and many people have wondered how they can if they believed in the high ideals they so vigorously espoused four years ago now walk hand in glove with the same leaders who still have the same old standpat reasons for wishing control of governmental affairs. While some of the politicians will slip back to the old guard a large per cent of the four million who supported the progressives in 1912 will either support Wilson, their own ticket or not vote next November. At least some of these men were in earnest and had faith in the high sounding platform adopted at that time.

* KwaonauzA-uwmnmammmms J DOINGS IN SOCIETY WEEK’S SOCIAL CALENDAR. Saturday. Ruth Circle Social-Christian church lawn. To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is labor. —Stevenson. The Helping Hand society of the Reformed church met and finished a quilt yesterday in the Sunday school room. Mrs. Fred Heuer served refreshments of ice cream, cake and candy Mr. and Mrs. Jay Cline had as their

guests yesterday, Jonas Cline and his cousin, Mrs Bungart, and daughter, Catherine, of Culmet. Pa. There was a full membership of the Mt. Pleasant Mite society present at the home of Mrs. Samuel Fuhrman yesterday afternoon. Guests besides members were Mrs. Glendenning, Mrs. Emerson Elzey, Miss Iva Syang'er, Miss Zelma Fuhrman. After the business period, a recitation by Esther Fuhrman and a duet by Mrs. Bertha Sheets and Letitia Singleton were very pleasing. The Misses Genevieve Bremerkamp and Maye Harting will leave Saturday morning for Celina. Ohio, where they will attend a house par’y given by Miss Jennie Gast. Twelve youngsters enjoyed a happy pierSc yesterday when chaperoned by Thelma and Dorothy Williams, they hiked to the woods for a picnic dinner. After dinner, games, wading and other enjoyable features, wore enjoyed. They came home at a late hour, a tired but happy bunch. The children were: Margaret and Gerald Williams, Dorothy Enos. Deward Wilson, Dorothy Durkin, Mary Burk, Jestine Hocker, Leone Hunslcker, Helen Leonard. Mrs. J. H. Mavity was tyostess to the Iziyal Women’s class last evening. Their regular bible study was carried out. Mrs. Mavity being the teacher. Mrs. Minnie Daniels read a fine paper on the life of Abraham. Mrs.J. Rex. will be hostess next Thursday evening. Miss Velma Alfather is entertaining three cousins. Miss Edna Alfather of Convoy, O-. Miss Esther Mauller. Pleasant Mills; Miss Marie Hill. of Decatur; at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Willyiam Alfather, four miles east of Decatur. The ~ Allbright Guild of the Salem Evangelical church had a splendid social last evening on the lawn at the William Alfather home east of the city. The attendance was very large and many from the vicinity of Convoy, 0.. were also there. Ice cream, cake, home made candies and a penny lunch were served. Mr and Mrt». C. L Meibers who are’at their cottage at Rome City will have quite a house party there for over the Fourth. Their daughter. Agnes, will go tomorrow. and will he joined at Fort Wayne by Raymond Merrill of Cicago. who will be their guest over the Fourth. Jesse G. Niblick and C. S. Niblick left tints morning by automobile and Mrs. Chri.-tena Niblick will join them there later. Rev. and Mrs. John Miller and two children of Albion who have been the guests of his brother, T. E. Millar and wife on Sixth street for two days, left this morning in their automobile for Dayton, O. for a visit. Mrs. P. J. Hyland and children. Arthur Catherine and Mary Virginia, will leave tomorrow for Munpie io visit with relatives until Monday when they go to Indianapolis for a vfsit with Mrs. Hyland's sister Miss Kate Tonuhey until the last of the week. Miss Catherine Hyland Till remain there the remainder Jf the summer. ATTEND FUNERAL Mrs. J. S. Bowers and son, William Mrs. Wilson Lee. Mrs. Sarah Bowels and Miss Ruth Bowers lert this morning by automobile for Delphos, 0.. to attend the funeral of Mrs. David Myers this afternoon. Mrs. Myers has visited here on many occasions. LEFT FOR MOBILE, ALA. Attorney Clark J. Lutz left last night for Mobile and Fruitdale, Ala., where lie will investigate the affairs of the late Jesse Steele, who died there last Saturday. He will arrive i at Mobile Saturday evening and expects to be absent a week. NOTICE TO TRESPASSERS. Notice is hereby given that any further trespassing on the fifteen acres I have rented from Cyrus Lion, a mile east of Preble, will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. This notice must be regarded, for I cannot tolerate trespassing while the crops are growing. 15616 A. W. OVERLING. HAD ANKLE BROKEN. In his haste to run to see the soldiers' train pass through. Dewey Hooper, aged nineteen, fell over some iron at the Vail hoop mills, Wednesday. and had tiie misfortune to break his right (inkle. He is about nineteen years of age and is the sou of Cora Schlegel. L. T~ L.**PICNIC. Every Loyal Temperance Legion member is requested to bring lunch and attend the picnic to be held at the waterworks park Saturday afternoon at 3:30. The superintendent, 4frs. C. F. Kenna. is planning a good time for the legion.

FOR. GOOD ROADS “Good Roads Thatcher,” Character of National Fame, Due Here Today. BOOSTING A HIGHWAY From Coast to Coast With Branches to San Francisco and to Florida. Col. Charles W. Thatcher, known all over this country as "Good Roads Thatcher," was here this afternoon to address our people on the subject of better roads. He is an enthusiast and admits it and travels from coast to coast in a quaint wagon pulled by a team of mules, attracting much attention and doing much good. At this time he is boosting for the Washington Memorial Highway from Seattle, to Florida, byway of Yellowstone park and Chicago. The road will cross Indiana, come from Bluffton here, and thence to Celina. Columbus, aid east, if Colonel Thatcher is successful. This is a preliminary trip and he expects to return again in the autumn to further his ideas. This will be the greatest trans-continental route in America and Decatur should join in the movement. Marion, Ind., Jnue 30—Under the j direction of the Grant County Motor club and the Mahon Association of Commerce, a public mass meeting is to be held here tonight in the interests of the Washington high This road wil run from New York to. Chicago to Seattle, and San Francisco, witli a branch from Chicago to Cincinnati. The route will qiass through Marion, coming from Peru and Rochester and continuing on through Montpelier to Celina. Columbus and Cinnati. Ohio. Marion is always a booster of good roads but more than usual interest has been worked up in this new highway as it will give Marion such a connection with surrounding cities. - o SUNDAY SERVICES Man Without God" will be the subjet of the sermon to be delivered on Sunday, July 2 by Rev. Roy D. Gauut at ytbe Cavalry .Evangelical church. All are cordially invited. |h.WIS! I < THE GOLDEN RULE MY CODE OF ETHICS > s 229 E. BERRY STREET £ FORT WAYNE. IND. = Siiiuiuiiiiiiih' niiiHiiiiiinifii CHRONIC DISEASES—I use the approved methods of the up-to-date specialist and nave every facility for giving the best possible results at a moderate cost. I GIVE MY ENTIRE ATTENTION to the treatment of chronic, obstinate and obscure diseases and invite consultation from those afflicted with such diseases as Cancer, Goiter, Rupture, Male and Female Weakness, Catarrh and Catarrhal Deafness, Throat and Lung Diseases, Tuberculosis, Tubercular affections of Glands, Bowels, Joints or Bones, Dropsy, Adenoids, Obstructed Breathing, Disease of the Eyes, Heart, Liver, Stomach, Bbwels, Kidneys, Bladder and Rectum. ECZEMA, ACNE and PSORIASIS, treated by light therapy, a method . that cures when every thing else falls. One treatment will convince you. RECTAL DISEASES—I claim the best method ever devised for the cure of Piles, Fissure, Ulceration, etc., by non-surgical methods. No pain. No Cutting. No detention from business. No failures. IF YOU HAVE PILES I will cure you, no difference how bad you are or how long you have had them. No matter what other Doctors have told you. I absolutely guarantee to give you satisfactory results unless your case is cancerous. HUNDREDS OF REFERENCES from Indiana, Ohio, and Michigan. Consultation free and confidential. No Sunday or Wednesday Hours except by appointment. * DR. C. R. WEAVER * ♦ ■ + * Osteopath * + * * Licensed by the Indiana * * State Board of Medical * * Registration and Examina- * * tion. Office over People’s + * Loan & Trust Co. * * ’PHONE 314. ♦+♦♦♦+♦+++♦♦♦♦ * PLENTY OF MONEY ♦ * to loan on * * IMPROVED FARMS ♦ al 5 Per Cent * * Abstracts made on short ♦ * Notice. * * SCHURGER’S * Abstract Office. * ***?***+******

LEE PERSISTENT (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) 'Tenth, and Lloyd Hailey. Twelfth. Among the speakers at the open 'meeting were these: Edwin M StiMTs. Clarence R. Mortin. Daniel Waugh. John Napier Dyer, Samuel Crumbaker, Frank Gilkerson. William Dudley te’oulke. Thomas A. Daih> Joseph E. Henley. S. R Nelson. W H. Newsom. Elias D. Salisbury. W. D Headrick. Edward R. Lewis, Jackson. Lance, Theodore Hewea. John Kingsbury, David S. Miller. J. Wesley Whicher, '.lam s B Wilson, John r Lawrence. Harry Anderson. Edwin M. Lee, William Holton Dye. Lewis M< Nutt. Bert Essex. Will O. Finch, W J. Dillingham. H T. Roberts, Stephen Clevenger and W L. Alcott. COURT HOUSE NEWS. Fishers' licenses 'were issued to A. R. Woods, John Smith. Alva Faustomaker, W. E. Trenary. C. F Trenary. The board of review will close its session Tuesday. The members compared the townships yesterday. They found them low but left them unchanged. the somewhat poor crops of last year no doubt being responsible in part. The polls were checked over also. Henry Kerz. born March 28. 1870. In Germany, a resident of tAe United States since 1911. has applied for naturalization papers. There are at present no prisoners In the general jail department. There is one woman in the insane wrad. being Mrs. Pearl Cross of Geneva, who s awaiting admission to Easthaven insane asylum. forsaleT" Slightly used 9x12 Axminster rug and vacuum sweeper and brush, all for $15.00. if sold right away. —Yager Bros. & Reinking. BARBER SHOPS TO CLOSE. All union barber shops will be closed all day July 4 They will, however, remain open until 8 o'clock Monday evening for the accommodation of patrons. 154t3 FOR RENT —Six room cottage on So. Ninth St., both kinds of water, electric lights. Inquire of R. E. Mumina. 155t6

Federal Inquiry ori Railroad Strike? I De Faced by demands from the conductors, engineers, firemen and brakt:: e <i that would impose cm the country an additional burden in transportation costs tr£ $100,000,000 a year, the railroads propose that this wage problem be settled reference to an impartial Federal tribunal. With these employes, whose efficient service is acknowledged, the railro* have no differences that could not be considered fairly and decided justly by a public body. Railroads Urge Public Inquiry and Arbitration The formal proposal of the railroads to the employes for the settlement' the controversy is as follows: •‘Our conference, have demonstrated that cannot harmonize our differences of opinion and that eventually tht matters in controversy must be passed upon by other and disinterested agencies. Therefore, we propose that )'* proposals and the proportion of the railways be disposed of by on, or the other of the following methods: ac r umihred V iHor Ub l"'”h n '° In, ' r ” a,e Commission, the only tribunal which, by reason of f accumulated in.ormation bearing on railway conditions and its control of the revenue of the railways, is in i ?»'• neeeMarTto mee^th. P ?fTd ,n< * ' qUlt '" ° f all ,he affected, and to provide additions' reve.se xs: xx - —»»—- 1. By arbitration in accordance with the provision, of the Federal law” (The Newland. Act). Leaders Refuse Offer and Take Strike Vote Y . th , e tra, n service brotherhoods, at the joint conference held i«& ! I r p ’ Jun F I ’ l3 ’ refuse , d l , he offer of the railroads to submit the issue to ?BtL d t l r HV CW ’ and i the f m P ! °y es are now voting on the question whet authority shall be given these leaders to declare a nation wide strike. n Pj; ; nt Vt tat u ommerce Commission is proposed by the railroads # J P y o nch this issue ought to be referred for these reasons: m of railroad conditions* haswh»n"unque»tioned tiou in the public confidence q P °* l ' can come from no other source than the tales r The rates the railroads may charge the public for * k'nese H transportation are vow largely fixed b-z this Govern The Interstate Commerce Commission, with its M rnent board. Uo ’ e,D trol over rates, is in . position to make a W»P'£ ■ Out of every dollar received hv the <' investigation and render such decision as wou- • ■ the public nearly one-half is pard d.rectly to the ™ ’ I A Question For the Public to Decide cmlnv " ,J ““ b ‘ I ELISHA LEE, CAmrman atOnai Conference Committee of the Railway* ’ I AlkMwC o . H . i r J„e\ / ?k"" r G ’A E^ RS °N. N D maHKK. ■ L. W. BALDWIN, Greet Northern Railway. N Norfolk * H LitH Central M Georgia Railway.’ C JAMES RUSSBLI.. C. L BARDO. fis»7 Hulsdelphl. & Readies Railway D„r<r4«'» G«»* ’ aC g T r- *• « I S<.«tll«r a K.dw^“' ; '“'‘ / "’ r A- S^ GRE !G, *’Ht' «<rrw»r7 W fTtODOV r “'o*rtS ■ S VpTTER,G ; »-/M a » o<fr . „ w™?’:Railroad. Se.board Air I K< * ■ Wabesl, Railway. L. M. KiJsJNS, Gm‘i Manat»r, a J STONE r. t CROWLEY. „ w'w‘™ p ± J s * r - ,a F * *»“••»• bS R * ilro ‘ J . » *'*■ New YerkCaoiral Railway. H ' Gn l *«»«/». G S WAID. W heehH 4 Lake Erie Railroad? G- S.*w< Cents' L ‘“’

(9 1 refrigerators Have a built in,. “PORCELAINIjj ED WATER COOLER”, food flavt can not reach the water to taint it,tl i one feature alone has placed many! frigerators in DECATUR homes. ! You will enjoy the hot summer t drinking pure cold water from a & . tary and Germ proof cooler. Come and see them, the price no hi;,. er than any ordinary refrigerator. , YAGER BROS. & REINKINS! DECATUR, IND. fl ■— t] sr. LOUIS EXCURSIONS ’< VIA rc CLOVER LEAF ROUTE "' July Ist and Bth, 1916 “ ec See H. J. THOMPSON, Agent Deca:; al for informatie